Nod

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I persevered, hoping for some explanation of the whole sleep thing that forms the setup of the novel, or of what exactly the golden towers seen by the Sleepers are. Add cult-like theorists and an easy manipulation of will, and Tanya and Paul's life together was going to always take a turn for the worse.

Tanya and Paul’s touching is coarse, brutal, and primitive, setting the stage for the rest of the novel. Combined with the essay by the same author contained at the end of the book, it struck a real chord about life and death. They sound like someone put these people on an electric chair and asked for their level of enthusiasm while the current was switched on. A few people, perhaps one in ten thousand, can still sleep, and they've all shared the same golden dream.

I often go sleep reluctantly; it forces me to stop the fun activity I'm doing, usually reading or binge watching a series. One thing this book is is a chronicle of a love story that could have been epic for him if his lover had been bothered enough. Nod is a must for every insomniac because it shows you that no matter how bad your night of no sleep is, things could be a lot worse. It was stupid, the story went absolutely NOWHERE, so I was left feeling not only annoyed and offended, but like the entire thing was a waste of time and the paper it was printed on. The reason I picked this book up in the first place is because the concept of this world sounded really unique.

If your mind and body never again got its eight—or even four or three or any—hours of necessary rejuvenation. I really loved this premise and the first few days felt as though they were building to a refreshing change from the typical Zombie Apocalypse. Paul does a great job of acting as though he doesn't care about those around him, well as a loner he would, wouldn't he. The desire of sleep is the catalyst to behavioural explosions where being morally positive is consumed by the morally negative. The world takes on a very fantasmagorical aspect because of the psychosis brought by sleep deprivation or from the dreams the few who still sleep have.This is exactly the kind of book that makes me feel like an idiot 😂 I don’t mind more literary-focused books, but there were some sentences I had to reread over and over again to try and figure out exactly what was trying to be said. By the time she died (the protagonist slit her throat with a box cutter to Save Her From What The World Had Become and What Was Happening to Her), I'd stopped giving a damn. Will the Sleepers be able to ride out these terrifying four weeks until the Awakers, rapidly devolving into their Neanderthal progenitors, finally die? As is often the case, two of the things which make this into an interesting and rewarding novel, the originality of the reason for the end of the world and the specific qualities of the narrative voice, can also feel like weaknesses. NOD is about what happens to the world, when for some unknown reason the vast majority of the worlds population can now, suddenly, no longer sleep.

Plot is full of holes; the premise is half-baked; the characters are one-dimensional (female characters are half-dimensional); the writing is detached, smug, and trying too hard to be clever. It's been several years since I've read it, but I have never met another person who's heard of it, let alone read it. It isn't a difficult read and it isn't that long, I read most of it in one go, but then I put it down and could not bring myself to pick it up and finish it for another month.Nod chronicles the devastating side effects that occurs in the Awakened , with the world changing into something unrecognisable. But the very act of not caring when people are dying is strange and Adrian could have made the character have more feeling (speaking from a loner who feels perspective) especially for his girlfriend. I did quite like the way Barnes wrote the ending, particularly the very last page (quite unexpected which was appreciated). His style was a breath of fresh air after some of the self-published rubbish available on Kindle these days. At the same time, I felt it was crammed too tight with the author's demonstrable intellect and frame of reference that it became an overwhelming read.